A Diller, A Dollar (1955) (continued)

[Jonathan Lighter]

"If at first you don't succeed, try second."

I learned this as a "baseball saying" around 1959.

JL

Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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At 10:38 AM -0600 3/24/05, Mullins, Bill wrote:
>Variants from a misspent youth:
>
>> If at first you don't succeed, slide for second.
>
>If at first you don't succeed, suck suck suck til you do succeed.

I recall "If at first you don't succeed, quit."

>
>> You can lead a horse to water,
>> But you cannot make him drink.
>> You can send a fool to college,
>> But you cannot make him think.
>
>You can lead a horticulture [whore to culture]
>but you can't make her think.

attributed, correctly or not, to Dorothy Parker (as an ad lib
contribution to a "use this word in a sentence" parlor game, one
likes to think around the Algonquin round table).

L


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